Every once in a while, when I am studying down the rabbit trails that I follow, I will find some illumination, something that just speaks to my heart. This is a dark world, but one sentence I read yesterday said that there is no darkness so deep that it is immune to the light. So true. Here is a quote from Martin Luther that as I digested it, it lit a small flame somewhere in the darkest parts of me. This life is an ongoing struggle, but Luther speaks to this, and I find it encouraging.
"This life, therefore, is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness,
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished, but it is going on.
This is not the end but it is the road.
All does not yet gleam in glory but all is being purified."
-Martin Luther in "Defense and Explanation of All the Articles," Second Article (1521)
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